UC Berkeley disavowed a research fund for eugenics it had kept for decades after a campus bioethicist and others protested. But eugenic ideology remains embedded in science today.
Just 15 months after assuming the position, Raven Rodriguez has resigned from her post as the Yale School of Nursing director of diversity, equity and inclusion effective immediately. In an early Thursday morning email obtained by the News,...
Maybe you requested a mail ballot, but changed your mind and want to vote in person. This is what you can do in every state if you’ve changed your mind about how you want to cast your vote.
Pam HerdPSA: If you want to vote in person even though you requested an absentee ballot here's how to do it.
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Pam Herd@texasinafrica here's what to do if you want to vote in-person, but have an absentee ballot
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Join us at the Centre for the Study of the United States for the F. Ross Johnson Virtual Colloquium on Precarity. "Lives on the Edge" is about the different forms precarity takes - a social, political and economic balancing act disproportionately...
A professional organization of social workers called the change "incredibly disheartening," while Gov. Greg Abbott's office said it was necessary to conform with existing state law.
Work requirements impede SNAP’s dual role as a safety net and automatic stabilizer. This economic analysis provides new evidence about how waivers to these rules functioned during the Great Recession and how the USDA’s proposed rules would have...
The U.S. Postal Service has ordered its police officers off city streets, sparking a legal battle in the final weeks of an election that could hang on mail-in ballots.
Pam HerdThe US Postal Service leadership, two weeks before the election, has ended daily patrols intended to protect against robberies of mail trucks and blue collection boxes. In particular, they did this in Detroit, Miami, Pittsburgh and Atlanta.
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Rebecca Cokley writes that Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court has struck fear in the hearts of families like hers -- with parents and children whose disabilities make them heavily reliant on the Affordable Care Act. She says with...
The absence of outbreaks, if it holds, suggests that the city’s efforts to return children to classrooms could serve as an influential model for the nation.
Pam HerdThis is *very* encouraging, but critical notes: 1) there is low community spread 2) they have substantially reduced class sizes and 3) they're testing in a somewhat systematic way (but need to do a lot more).
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